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Jazz Journal
JJ 10/73: Weather Report – Sweetnighter
Fifty years ago Charles Le Vay was disappointed by Sweetnighter but found WR of vital interest in a 'fairly crucial stage of American music'
JJ 10/73: Don Cherry And The Jazz Composers Orchestra – Relativity Suite
Fifty years ago Martin Davidson heard Cherry a long way off Brahms, and Carla Bley emulating the Mrs. Dale's Diary aspect of Mrs. Coltrane
Brighton Jazz Mafia Big Band at St. Andrew’s Church, Hove
Graham Thomas saw the BJM play Basie, Nestico et al but the most interesting stuff was by the late Brighton composer Simon D'Souza
The Dick Patterson Trio – a real-life jazz mystery
Recordings by Dick Patterson, a bassist active in 1960s Chicago, have been issued for the first time - but who played the piano and drums?
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JJ 10/63: Anita O’Day – Anita Sings Jazz
Sixty years ago Steve Voce noted that while Billie Holiday would jump in the river over lost love, O'Day would have the man jump
JJ 10/63: Tubby Hayes – Late Spot At Scott’s
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles liked Gordon Beck's funkiness and Jimmy Deuchar's moderation of the leader's tendency to technical effusion
JJ 10/63: Stan Getz – Jazz Samba Encore!
Sixty years ago Steve Voce observed that while the UK had yet to endure the bossa-nova flood, US critics had yet to be exposed to the Beatles
JJ 10/63: Duke Ellington And John Coltrane – Duke Ellington And John Coltrane
Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles wasn't sure Ellington and Coltrane fully considered the listener in making their tender tryst
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JJ 10/63: In My Opinion – Sandy Brown
Sixty years ago Sandy Brown thought Cannonball Adderley's Jive Samba the dullest thing he'd heard since yesterday's Juke Box Jury
JJ 09/93: Terje Rypdal – Q.E.D.
Thirty years ago, Graham Colombé observed that the guitarist's latest had more to do with contemporary classical music than jazz
JJ 09/93: Keith Jarrett – Bye Bye Blackbird
Thirty years ago, Graham Colombé thought the engineer should have minimised the pianist's vocal embellishments of some very good music
JJ 09/93: Tony Coe – Some Other Autumn
Thirty years ago, Derek Ansell recalled how two routine nights for the reedman with the Brian Lemon trio turned into something special
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